*le sigh* - Photographic Frustration ...

September 30, 2007

… How bad can it get… We went into the mountains yesterday and I filled 2 GB cards with photos. Walked 8 hours and climbed with the camera bag on my back over waterfalls and rivers, rocks and hills. Always with the panorama of the Mountains in the background. The weather was great. Clear skies, the odd cloud in there once in a while, nice and warm.

When I came home, I realized or rather, my BF realized: “Are you crazy? You shot everything at ISO 1600 ????”

Coming from film, I put in a film which I check for ISO once and then don’t bother again about ISO. I never checked the ISO number. Apart from 1 picture – which still is not great – I can toss everything out: Way overexposed pictures, horrible colouring, etc. … 1 whole day dragging the cam around for nothing, nothing, nothing :c( … That hurts…

Journal Comments

Torfinn
over 10 years ago

I´m sorry for you. You probably won´t make that mistake again. Have done it myself sometimes, so don´t feel alone in doing that kind of mistake. Better luck next time. There will always be new opportunities!

that is bad luck, I went bushwalking once and I ran out of batteries after three photos and then to find the other batteries i took where flat too its v funstrating. I guess you will return there or maybe somewhere else.

It`ll go definetely into your own (taking pictures for dummies) book!? Yes you were probably lucky to find that out in a non so important away trip. Someone I know got her camera stolen with stucks of pics in it ,while on her long waited holiday.As they say..“stuff happens” now it won`t happen again! Hey! You still got your camera and now you probably know that place better and know better spots where to take shots!?So yes ,think of all this as a learnig experience. Ciao cara!

doesn’t sound good! but is there nothing you can do in PS or any other software – are they all a loss? at least some images should be worth something – especially when you were taking some photos in the shadow, or at least not in bright sunlight….

Stefan, the pictures that you can see, that are tagged Oetscher / Ötscher on my Galery, are all those ISO 1600 shots… I have added the EXIF to some already. It’s just about a handful pictures that still work out, which is frustrating, considering that I shot nearly 300 pictures in total … Even the “Crooked Little Mill” has been shot with ISO 1600 … It could have worked even better had I used a lower ISO I bet :P … Well.. won’t be making THAT mistake again ;c) …

photogenique
over 10 years ago

been there – done that – know how you feel!! A friend of mine said these very wise words to me many years ago – “the person who has never made a mistake has never made anything”.